Linde plc (XTRA:LIN) offered to acquire the remaining 8% stake in Linde Aktiengesellschaft (DB:LNA) for €2.8 billion on December 10, 2018. Under the terms of the transaction, Linde will pay €189.46 per share in cash to acquire the remaining stake in Linde Aktiengesellschaft in a squeeze out transaction. The transaction is still subject to the approval by Linde Aktiengesellschaft's shareholders. Timo Engelhardt, Martina Farkas, Ruprecht von Maltzahn, Alberto Luzárraga, Josh Feit, Martin Schunke, Jennifer Klement, Sabrina Mayer, Patrick Neidinger, Gabriel Burghardt, Katrin Zink, Dorthe Mager, Andreas Schaflitzl, Matthew Devey, Florian Schmitt, Sebastian Biller, Konstantin Sakuth, Pieter Van Den Broecke, David Brockway, Klaudia Owsianka, Frances Wang, Francis McCabe, Tina Guo, Christopher Quinn, Olga Gomez de Castro, Tom De Coster, Nandy Millette, Sean McKeever, Ja Hyeon Park, Karen Mijelshon, Michael Kam, Gitanjali Shankar, Jess Blakemore, Rich Jones, WSH Projects Prac: Vijaya Palaniswamy, Chris Staples, Aileen Buchanan, Eric Cheng, Amanda Griggs, Allison Moffett, Patrick Chen, Nick Marshall, Thomas A McGrath, William Huynh, John Eichlin, Ben Bauer, Bernd Meyring, Léonore De Mullewie, Anand Patel, Sebastian von Hornung, Sarah Barnard, Mario Garcia, Ji Chen, Elizabeth Yazgi, André Pinto, Sean Solomon, Patrick Ashby, Menaka Nayar, Mina Whangbo and Ellen Gong of Linklaters LLP acted as legal advisor to Linde Aktiengesellschaft. Linde plc (XTRA:LIN) completed the acquisition of the remaining 8% stake in Linde Aktiengesellschaft (DB:LNA) on March 1, 2019. Restrictions under the hold separate order issued by the US Federal Trade Commission were lifted following the completion of certain required divestitures in the US. As of April 8, 2019, the trading of Linde shares on Frankfurt Stock Exchange and other German exchanges is expected to be discontinued today.